Saturday, March 2, 2013

There was something fungoid in the oily brown skin, something in the
clumsy deliberation of the tedious movements unspeakably nasty. Even
at this first encounter, this first glimpse, I was overcome with
disgust and dread.

Suddenly the monster vanished. It had toppled over the brim of the
cylinder and fallen into the pit, with a thud like the fall of a great
mass of leather. I heard it give a peculiar thick cry, and forthwith
another of these creatures appeared darkly in the deep shadow of the
aperture.

I turned and, running madly, made for the first group of trees,
perhaps a hundred yards away; but I ran slantingly and stumbling, for
I could not avert my face from these things.

In another moment I had scrambled up the earthen rampart and stood upon its crest, and the interior of the redoubt was below me. A mighty space it was, with gigantic machines here and there within it, huge mounds of material and strange shelter places. And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians--dead!--slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.

Such a great prop! It would be cool to see the classic monsters of sci-fi done in the Rot style. Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein, The Mummy, the list could go on and on.......Not that I'm telling an artist to what to do. Thanks for another amazing, inspiring work.

Creepy prop! He very much reminds me of the War of the Worlds aliens, but of course with a Rot twist. Very,very cool. I'll have to share this with my brother as that was his favorite movie when he was a kid :)